成都石室中学高2019届二诊模拟试卷英语试卷考试说明：英语考试时间共120分钟，满分150分。
英语试题卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）。
考试做答时，须将答案答在答题卡上，在本试卷、草稿纸上答题无效。
第I卷第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）听下面5段对话。
每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。
听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。
每段对话仅读一遍。
1. What does the woman think of the man?A. Hardworking.B. Humorous.C. Dishonest.2. What will the woman do next?A. Reserve a ticket for the man.B. Put the man through to another department.C. Give the man some information about North America.3. What time is the new appointment?A. It’s 4:15.B. It’s 4:30.C. It’s 4:45.4. What will the woman do?A. Play in the garden.B. Go to a café.C. Surf the Internet.5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. The habits of bees.B. A strange belief.C. A friend.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5段对话或独白。
每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。
听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。
每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
6. When did the woman come to China?A. At the age of five.B. At the age of fifteen.C. At the age of twenty-four.7. What nationality is the woman?A. French.B. American.C. English.听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. How many workers are there in the factory?A. 2000.B. 1000.C. 500.9. What does the woman think of the smell in the factory?A. Wonderful.B. A little strange.C. Too strong.10. What is the first step to get ice cream in the boxes?A. Cutting the ice cream.B. Freezing the ice cream.C. Mixing everything in the boxes. 听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. Where did the woman just come from?A. Her office.B. Her house.C. The train station.12. How does the man get to the airport so quickly?A. By driving on the highway.B. By driving a fast car.C. By taking a shortcut.13. What does the woman mean at the end of the conversation?A. The man can keep the change.B. The man should have his tires fixed.C. The man shouldn’t charge her so much.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. Where are the speakers?A. In the classroom.B. In a restaurant.C. At a repair shop.15. What can we learn about the car?A. It will cost a lot to fix.B. It has a problem again.C. It is more expensive than an American car.16. How does the man know the repairman?A. The repairman is his former classmate.B. He was once the repairman’s customer.C. The repairman is his neighbor.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. What is the speaker mainly talking about?A. The likes and dislikes of school-age children.B. What happens when kids start school at a later time.C. How food affects children’s thinking.18. Who was in charge of the study?A. The speaker.B. The Children’s Research Center.C. The Children’s Sleep Disorders Clinic.19. What does Julie think will happen to the well-rested students?A. They will be happier at school.B. They will learn better at night.C. They will buy more energy drinks.20. What should educators pay attention to according to Julie?A. School schedule and teenagers’ sleep needs.B. Food quality in the dining hall.C. Teaching methods.第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题; 每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
AInventions make the world better, smarter and even a little bit more fun. Last year, in November, Time magazine published “2018 Top 50 inventions”. Here are thr ee of the most interesting inventions for you. Let’s take a look.Lifepack Carry-on ClosetIn many cases, traveling is fun, but packing can be quite annoying. No matter how neatly you pack your clothes, you always end up having to pull out everything in order to find what you need. Well, the Lifepack Carry-on Closet designed by the Danish startup Solgaard Design might change that for good.From the outside, the Lifepack looks like an ordinary suitcase. But inside, it contains a set of retractable shelves to keep clothes in good order and maximize the space. Its shelf system has many extra pockets and is removable. So when you get to your destination, you just need to take out the shelf system and hang it in your hotel closet.LynQBecoming separated from friends in crowds or losing contact with your family in a strange place can be a nightmare.But now, LynQ, a new location tracker, has a fix.When you wear LynQ, you use a combination of GPS technology and long-range radio frequencies to find other LynQs to a distance of up to 5 kilometers from you. In addition, an onscreen dot points each user in the right direction, like a compass.As Time notes, “LynQ solves the three Ws: No more worrying, wandering or waiting around.”Gravity jet suitIf you’re a big fan o f Iron Man, you must have been impressed by his amazing jet suit. Now, there is a real gravity jet suit for us to try.Developed by London-based technology company Gravity Industries, the flying suit is equipped with five power engines — four are built into units close to the hands and one is built into a backpack.If these engines fuel together, they can provide 1,050 horsepower to make the wearer move at a speed of up to 51 kilometers per hour. So, for people who can balance with the suit on, it’s easy to fly.21. From the description of LynQ, we can learn that ________.A. it is an advanced GPS systemB. it is a wearable deviceC. it is based on a compassD. it makes its users worry-free22. Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. It’s ea sy for people to fly because Gravity jet suit can provide adequate power.B. You won’t worry about losing touch with your family once you wear LynQ.C. Lifepack Carry-on Closet can make packing easier with unique design.D. Traveling will become more convenient and cozier with the three inventions.23. What’s the purpose of the passage?A. To appeal to more consumers.B. To comment on the latest technology.C. To introduce some interesting inventions.D. To promote some creative products.BI, Et Blacks, grew up in a tin-roofed house, but I didn’t see my circumstance as an obstacle, even though we didn’t even have a real toilet in the house. Dad died when I was three years old, leaving Mom with the job of raising and providing for nine kids. She worked very hard at two factories for fifty dollars a week. In order to make ends meet, she hardly ever rested.My mom believed in doing all she could to take care of her responsibilities, so no matter what happened, she never asked for a handout. You can imagine: we kids didn’t get what we wanted, but we always got the things we needed. With my mom as my example, I learned that hard work is the best way to get what you want.While growing up, I was surrounded with temptations to do negative things like drugs, alcohol and all that. I chose not to go there. Even as a little boy, I knew I was going to be successful. Of course, I dreamed about what I wanted to be when I grew up. At first, I would be a state trooper, then I wanted to be in the Special Forces. After a while, I decided that I wanted to drive eighteen-wheelers. There was even a period of time when I wanted to be in construction. But regardless of what I chose, I wanted to make my brothers, sisters and mom proud of me — not only by being successful in what I chose to do, but also a person who could be looked up to for the right reasons.Surprising as it might seem, basketball wasn’t in my plans. One day, my mom cut the outside edge off an old water barrel and then held it up for me to throw an old rubber ball through. By junior high, I started playing basketball on a team. I just let my success in basketball take its course, but I always put the effort in, every day. For me, it paid off.24. The passage is mainly about ________.A. what made Et a successful personB. how Et became a basketball playerC. how correct choices helped Et succeedD. what a vital part Et’s mom played in his success25. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.A. there were nine people in total in Et’s famil yB. Et grew up with many bad guys surrounding himC. Et’s mom expected him to become a basketball playerD. Et might not have been a basketball star but for his mom26. The main message conveyed in the passage is that ________.A. one can’t succeed without his family’s supportB. resisting temptation helps one growC. hard work is the key to successD. what we want varies from what we need27. Which of the following can best describe Et?A. Independent and determined.B. Strong-willed and diligent.C. Hospitable and hard-working.D. Painstaking and generous.CYou’re walking down a quiet street and suddenly you hear some footsteps. Undoubtedly, it means that there’s someone around. But have you ever wondered why it occurs to us that it’s someone else’s footsteps, not ours?According to a new study published in the journal Nature in September, this phenomenon results from a function in our brain to ignore the noises we make ourselves.In order to explore how our brain does this, a group of scientists carried out an experiment with mice at Duke University. In the experiment, researchers controlled the sounds a group of mice could hear. During the first several days, the mice would hear the same sound each time they took a step. This was just like “running on a tiny piano with each key playing exactly the same note”, Richard Mooney, a professor of neurobiology at Duke University, told Live Science.Scientists found that their auditory cortex —the area of the brain that processes sound —became active at first but decreased its response to the sound after two or three minutes when the mice became familiar with it.“It’s almost like they were wearing special headphones that could ignore the sound of their own movements,” David Schneider, an assistant pro fessor at the Center for Neural Science at New York University, told HuffPost.But once the sound changed, their auditory cortex became active again. This suggests that the auditory cortex in a mouse’s brain could help it detect new sounds or abnormal nois e in the environment easily after tuning out familiar sounds, according to Science Daily.“For mice, this is really important,” said Schneider. “They are prey animals, so they really need to be able to listen for a cat creeping up on them, even when the y’re walking and making noise.”As important as it is for mice’s survival, the ability to ignore movement-related noises is also useful for humans when it comes to complex tasks, such as playing an instrument.According to Schneider, “the ability to ignor e the expected consequences of our movement gives us the extra-cool ability to detect when we’ve got it wrong. So if I play the piano just right, I hear it, but my auditory cortex is pretty silent. But when I play it wrong, I get a much larger response.” S o our brain could be telling us, “Hey, that didn’t sound right. Maybe I should move my fingers a little different next time,” Schneider told HuffPost.28. Which of the following statements about auditory cortex is TRUE according to the passage?A. Auditory cortex is always alert to abnormal or new sounds.B. Auditory cortex is more important to animals than to humans.C. Auditory cortex functions by ignoring expected or familiar sounds.D. Auditory cortex acts as a headphone to detect familiar sounds.29. The underlined part “prey animals” in Paragraph 7 refers to the animals ________.A. that are easily caught by a creeping catB. that are hunted by another for foodC. that can detect new sounds easilyD. that walk and make noise at night30. What is the best title of the passage?A. Discovery of Auditory CortexB. Surrounding Sound and the BrainC. Secret to Processing SoundD. Brain’s Special Sound Skill31. Where can you probably read the passage?A. In a newspaper.B. In a research paper.C. In a biology textbook.D. In a scientific journal.DIt is quite apparent that competition surrounds every aspect of human life whether in the United States or the Amazon Rain Forest. Without it we would not have grown into primates. Or we would probably still be struggling to sharpen a bronze tool while crawling around on four legs in search of meat. Without competition, Columbus wouldn’t have discovered America and Edison would never have invented the light bulb.Friendship, like all relationship betw een two people, involves competition. It isn’t competition in a traditional sense because there are no goals to be scored and no prizes. Perhaps the ecological definition — the simultaneous (happening at the same time) demand by two or more organisms for limited environmental resources, such as nutrients, living space, or light — better explains it.As in nature, high school life is governed by a set of laws, similar to a shortened version of Darwin’s theory of evolution, overpopulation, and competition. Th ere is an abundance of high school students and to distinguish them, ranking and categorizing take place. In high school, friendships learn to co-exist with competition even though at times the relationship is rough. In fact, in some circumstances, competition is too much of a burden for a friendship to bear, causing it to fall apart. College admission is the final high school objective. Four years of hard work is to achieve good grades, and a student’s fate is determined not only by these achievements, but by the records of thousands of other seniors trying to achieve a similar recognition.Nevertheless, by necessity, competition between students exists in all aspects of high school life. It sets and improves the standards in everything from sports to school work. A healthy, friendly competition can have only benefits, but when it becomes too fierce, jealousy can tear friendships apart. Yet, despite all this, without competition, we would be lost.32. Conventionally competition ________ according to the passage.A. means two or more people fight for the same resourcesB. refers to ranking and categorizing peopleC. exists in all relationship between two peopleD. involves goals to be scored and prizes to be achieved33. The passage tells us ________.a. we human beings can’t be what we are now without competitionb. Darwin’s theory has the same impact on nature and societyc. a student’s fate mainly depends on his own good gradesd. the degree of competition in high school is vital to friendshipA. a cB. b cC. a dD. b d34. What can we learn from the passage?A. Competition becomes most fierce in the period of one’s high school.B. It’s impossible to keep a balance between competition and friendship.C. Competition in college admission really tears friendship apart.D. Competition is unavoidable and also necessary in high school.35. What is the author’s attitude toward competition?A. Favorable.B. Critical.C. Skeptical.D. Objective.第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。